River Tooth
Last Monday, I dropped a Special Episode debuting The Snake River Killer Podcast's newest feature, "Listeners Heard," wherein I invite listeners on the show to discuss their ideas and findings relating to these cases. Monday's episode featured our own graphic designer and team member, Samantha Sawyer who found even more words--
"Seven Years, Now"--in the Lost Husky classified ad. We also discussed the potential significance of the phone numbers in the ad. One of the things she noted was that if you google 9422 from the first number, all of your search results will result in information about the Winchester lever-action rifle. That sticks out to me only because 1.) Lance briefly worked at Omark, an ammunition and firearms company in Lewiston, and 2.) His ex-wife had said that instead of cleaning dirty dishes, Lance would pack them up the hill behind their house and shoot them.
I also spoke with Tamara Mettling and Ryan Wood, the couple who found the tooth along the banks of the Snake River this past summer. Our conversation led me to reach out to a close friend, Dr. Larry Parker, who is a dentist. Larry will be on an upcoming episode to discuss his ideas about the tooth, and specifically whether or not it came from a human or an animal. And again, even if it is human, and it very well might not be, it could be from any one of the many people who have either disappeared from the LC valley or who have died on the river. But IF it is human, then it needs to be either ruled in or ruled out. Anyway, stay tuned for my conversation with Dr. Parker.
Something else that I found to be strange. When I asked Tamara and Ryan where specifically they found the tooth, they told me it was about a half a mile or three quarters of a mile upriver from Red Bird Beach. Directionally, that would be a half to three quarters of a mile south of Redbird Beach.
That struck me because shortly after Christina White went missing, a psychic from Grangeville, Idaho named Addie Alderman--who I mentioned in Episode 1--contacted authorities saying that she had "seen" Christina White's body in the Snake River about 1 mile south of Red Bird Beach on the Idaho side. And for clarification, Tamara and Ryan found the tooth in about the same exact area, and also on the Idaho side. Coincidental? Probably.
Personally, I don't know what to think about psychics. Because I tend to be skeptical about such things, I think many so-called psychics are charlatans. That said, I do know that police have drawn on psychics in certain cases, so there could be something to them. In this instance, the geographical overlap really stood out to me. I mean of all places along a long and massive river, this exact location comes up twice in the same case. Even if it is determined that the tooth is not human, I still think I would like to get a drone into that area if for no other reason than to cross it off the list as a potential location of interest.
